The Great Recession changed how young adults lived, but they may have
The Great Recession changed how young adults lived, but they may have felt it more in Bridgeport than in Des Moines.
A new analysis of census data finds that 24 percent of adults age 20 to 34 lived with their parents during the 2007-2009 period, compared to 17 percent in 1980. While that increase occurred across age groups, races and ethnicities, educational attainment, and both sexes, it did so to varying degrees.
The Great Recession changed how young adults lived, but they may have felt it more in Bridgeport than in Des Moines.
A new analysis of census data finds that 24 percent of adults age 20 to 34 lived with their parents during the 2007-2009 period, compared to 17 percent in 1980. While that increase occurred across age groups, races and ethnicities, educational attainment, and both sexes, it did so to varying degrees.
Zhenchao Qian, the brief’s author and chair of sociology at The Ohio State University, says that what surprised him most was “an across-the-board increase in co-residence with parents, although the extent of increase varies.”
“The recession hit young adults the hardest because they were often ‘last hired, first fired,'” says Qian in a release accompanying the report.
The share of Asian-Americans age 20 to 34 living with parents grew sharply between 1980 and the late 2000s, from 17 to 26 percent, a pattern that may be attributed either to this group’s later marriage age or tendency to live in places with high costs of living, according to the report.